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Displays the In-Place Text Editor, which you can use to edit the dimension

text. Use control codes and Unicode character strings to enter special characters

or symbols. See

Control Codes and Special Characters (page 1049).

If alternate units are not turned on in the dimension style, you can display

them by entering square brackets ([ ]). For more information about formatting

dimension text, see Select and Modify Objects.

The current dimension style determines the appearance of the generated

measurements.

Text

Customizes the dimension text at the Command prompt. The generated

dimension measurement is displayed within angle brackets.

To include the generated measurement, use angle brackets (< >) to represent

the generated measurement. If alternate units are not turned on in the

dimension style, you can display alternate units by entering square brackets

([ ]).

Dimension text properties are set on the Text tab of the New, Modify, and

Override Dimension Style dialog boxes.

Angle

Changes the angle of the dimension text.

Object Selection

Automatically determines the origin points of the first and second extension

lines after you select an object.

For polylines and other explodable objects, only the individual line and arc

segments are dimensioned. You cannot select objects in a non-uniformly

scaled block reference.

If you select a line or an arc, the line or arc endpoints are used as the origins

of the extension lines. The extension lines are offset from the endpoints by

the distance you specify in Offset from Origin in the Lines and Arrows tab of

the New, Modify, and Override Dimension Style dialog boxes. See

DIMSTYLE

(page 314). This value is stored in the DIMEXO (page 1231) system variable.

If you select a circle, the location of the origins for the extension lines is

calculated based on the center of the circle and the angle of the rotated

dimension line.